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There are 12 total results for your 黑白 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

黑白

see styles
hēi bái
    hei1 bai2
hei pai
 kokubyaku
black and white; right and wrong; monochrome
Black and white, evil and good; also the two halves of the month, the waning and waxing moon.

黑白切

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hēi bái qiē
    hei1 bai2 qie1
hei pai ch`ieh
    hei pai chieh
(Tw) heibaiqie, side dish of ingredients selected from a range on display, sliced up and served together on a plate (from Taiwanese 烏白切, Tai-lo pr. [oo-pe̍h-tshiat], where 烏白 means "as one pleases")

黑白業

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hēi bái yè
    hei1 bai2 ye4
hei pai yeh
evil karma and good karma

黑白不分

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hēi bái bù fēn
    hei1 bai2 bu4 fen1
hei pai pu fen
can't tell black from white (idiom); unable to distinguish wrong from right

黑白倶業

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hēi bái jù yè
    hei1 bai2 ju4 ye4
hei pai chü yeh
concurrent negative and positive karma

黑白分明

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hēi bái fēn míng
    hei1 bai2 fen1 ming2
hei pai fen ming
lit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom); fig. unambiguous; black-and-white; in sharp contrast; to distinguish clearly right from wrong

黑白林䳭

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hēi bái lín jí
    hei1 bai2 lin2 ji2
hei pai lin chi
(bird species of China) Jerdon's bush chat (Saxicola jerdoni)

黑白林鵖

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hēi bái lín bī
    hei1 bai2 lin2 bi1
hei pai lin pi
(bird species of China) Jerdon's bush chat (Saxicola jerdoni)

黑白無常


黑白无常

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hēi bái wú cháng
    hei1 bai2 wu2 chang2
hei pai wu ch`ang
    hei pai wu chang
(Chinese folk religion) Heibai Wuchang: two deities, one dressed in black and the other in white, responsible for escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld

黑白電視


黑白电视

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hēi bái diàn shì
    hei1 bai2 dian4 shi4
hei pai tien shih
black and white TV

混淆黑白

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hùn xiáo hēi bái
    hun4 xiao2 hei1 bai2
hun hsiao hei pai
to confuse black and white; to say that black is white; fig. not to distinguish right from wrong

顛倒黑白


颠倒黑白

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diān dǎo hēi bái
    dian1 dao3 hei1 bai2
tien tao hei pai
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "黑白" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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